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February 24, 2011, 11:30:22 PM
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From what I've heard on here, mining with a CPU just isn't worth anything anymore. However, Steve Gibson on Security Now talks about how he mined a block with 4,000 hashes/second (I'm assuming he means kHash/s since he's using the default client).

Maybe I should give it a try. Smiley

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February 24, 2011, 11:56:04 PM
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From what I've heard on here, mining with a CPU just isn't worth anything anymore. However, Steve Gibson on Security Now talks about how he mined a block with 4,000 hashes/second (I'm assuming he means kHash/s since he's using the default client).

Maybe I should give it a try. Smiley

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February 24, 2011, 11:57:56 PM
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Already am - I just have it tied to slush's pool since I didn't want to wait months for the block to be (possibly) found.

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February 25, 2011, 06:08:22 PM
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Already am - I just have it tied to slush's pool since I didn't want to wait months for the block to be (possibly) found.

on my amd athlon2 x2(2 cores) cpu i get 2600 khash/s, on the amd phenom2 x6 (6 cores)cpu you will get around 7800+ khash/s, is it worth it? you deside.
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February 25, 2011, 06:50:56 PM
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.. on the amd phenom2 x6 (6 cores)cpu you will get around 7800+ khash/s, is it worth it? you deside.
my PhenomII X3 gets ~7800+khash/s already on jgarziks cpu-4way, or ultrasofts cpu-miner,
an X6 should get about twice as much.


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February 25, 2011, 11:52:08 PM
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my PhenomII X3 gets ~7800+khash/s already on jgarziks cpu-4way, or ultrasofts cpu-miner,
an X6 should get about twice as much.

I'm running an X6 1090T BE, not overclocked and can confirm that I get ~17500 khash/s.
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February 26, 2011, 12:20:51 AM
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my PhenomII X3 gets ~7800+khash/s already on jgarziks cpu-4way, or ultrasofts cpu-miner,
an X6 should get about twice as much.

I'm running an X6 1090T BE, not overclocked and can confirm that I get ~17500 khash/s.

Are you running with the 4way switch? I have the same proc, and I'm getting ~20khash/s with pop's cpu miner.

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February 26, 2011, 02:38:51 AM
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my PhenomII X3 gets ~7800+khash/s already on jgarziks cpu-4way, or ultrasofts cpu-miner,
an X6 should get about twice as much.

I'm running an X6 1090T BE, not overclocked and can confirm that I get ~17500 khash/s.

Are you running with the 4way switch? I have the same proc, and I'm getting ~20khash/s with pop's cpu miner.

Oh yes, I am. I didn't realize this topic was about the original client. I must have been skimming too much when I replied.
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February 26, 2011, 07:08:48 AM
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From what I've heard on here, mining with a CPU just isn't worth anything anymore. However, Steve Gibson on Security Now talks about how he mined a block with 4,000 hashes/second (I'm assuming he means kHash/s since he's using the default client).

Maybe I should give it a try. Smiley

He must got lucky, or done it a long time ago, when difficulty was a lot smaller. Right now, to find a block with 4000 kH/s you'd have to mine for 1 year and 12 weeks on average.
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February 26, 2011, 12:04:50 PM
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From what I've heard on here, mining with a CPU just isn't worth anything anymore. However, Steve Gibson on Security Now talks about how he mined a block with 4,000 hashes/second (I'm assuming he means kHash/s since he's using the default client).

Maybe I should give it a try. Smiley

He must got lucky, or done it a long time ago, when difficulty was a lot smaller. Right now, to find a block with 4000 kH/s you'd have to mine for 1 year and 12 weeks on average.

He started February 9th, and got the block Feb 14th, according to his podcast. That's pure luck.

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